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Russian

Hi, there! My name is Helen and I can't wait to meet you! I've been teaching private lessons since 2009 and have loved helping my students to speak a new language, to successfully pass their exams, and to increase their language confidence. 

I grew up in Eastern Ukraine and I earned a Master’s degree in French language and literature in 2010. I'm a patient and easy going person and my teaching methods always depend on student’s age and language needs. I look forward helping you to reach your goals!

Come and practice speaking with Helen! She is a native Russian speaker, and will guide you with questions and engaging topics. You can also bring any questions you have about vocabulary or grammar. While focusing on speaking, you can also learn new words and get answers to your questions! 


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Successfully passed training and then the exam and became an examiner and corrector for all levels of DELF / DALF (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2).

Examiner, corrector for DELF / DALF

Teach French as a Second Language with Comics

Work as a French and Russian tutor, one-on-one classes in person and online. Students of all ages and all language levels. Help students to pass exams, to get ready for traveling abroad, to learn language for themselves.

Private language instructor

Worked with 3-5 year old kids (full language emersion) in a group (20 people), helped the lead teacher in the classroom, was responsible for lessons in small groups (5 people).

French teacher's assistant

Worked with students of all ages (9-60), taught students in groups (8-10 people) as well as one-on-one. Prepared students for traveling abroad, passing language exams (DELF A1-B1), passing language interview.

French teacher

Worked with children from 10 to 18 years old, developed French lesson plans, organized group work, maintained discipline in the classroom, evaluated the students’ classwork and assignments.

Ukrainian

I am in love with teaching languages. Being a Russian native speaker, I can help students to understand this subject deeper and to concentrate more on speaking practice which is very important in learning language. I've been teaching Russian as a second language for more than 10 years.

Helen is so patient and very engaging. I’ve been trying to learn french for so long and she helped me get started and stay on track! She explains things very well and is very understanding. 

Helen is very patient and willing to digress onto other topics. Today, I learned about the soft-sign «ь» and how it affects the vowel/consonant before it. No other teacher has ever been willing to explain this to me!

Helen is a superb teacher — skillful, personable, patient and great fun to work with.

Helen is a patient and enjoyable person who makes learning Russian much less daunting! Her approach of explaining phrases, usage and deconstructing them is much better than dry knowledge of each of the six tenses, lots of vocabulary and complicated syntactic and semantic rules.

I found Helen because I wanted to improve my Russian speaking, reading and writing skills, after having taken Russian on and off for several years. Helen was a wonderful teacher, adapting to my learning pace and adapting her lesson plans so they filled in the gaps in my knowledge. She is patient, friendly, and explains difficult concepts very well. I feel very equipped to continue improving, and I wish I could continue my lessons with her!

Helen (Елена) gave me an excellent lesson. I have forgotten a lot of the Russian I knew, but she was very patient and helped me with words I didn't know. 

Helen is an amazing French insturctor because she's not only fluent in French; Helen's clarity is fantastic! It's very important that my instructor 
corrects my pronunciation as we move forward. Helen also gives a lot of commendation along the way, and it makes me feel good about my efforts.

Merci Helen!

Helen is a wonderful and patient teacher with a lot of experience. My Russian has improved dramatically thanks to her. 

Miss Helen is so wonderful! We are new to her classes, but she is so kind and friendly, and does a great job engaging with my children. 

In this video we’ll learn some useful phrases in Russian such as “I don’t understand”, “Speak slower”, “Do you speak English?” and more.

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:aba6c7f1-df4b-3f28-89a4-0ce985f8dedf

Useful Phrases

In this video we’ll learn how to conjugate verbs of the 2nd type conjugation. We’ll look at some examples and verb peculiarities within this group.

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:1a3f2895-2dbe-3e0b-877d-ce710f2336ca

И-Type Verbs

In this video we’ll learn 13 pets in Russian. We’ll also learn how to say  « I have a pet », « this is my pet » and more. 

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:e7fbc5bf-eb7d-3b9a-81db-9180c57f4dbe

Pets

In this video we’ll cover the ordinal numbers from 1st to 100th. We’ll take a look at their different forms depending on the noun’s gender they match.

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:c53f00a2-6329-36aa-b9bf-195832996983

Ordinal Numbers 1-100

In this video we’ll learn how to conjugate verbs of the largest Russian verb group. We’ll look at some examples and irregular patterns within this group. 

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:a9ab2058-687f-33a7-8dfe-475bc2b8f59a

E-Type Verbs

In this video we’ll learn irregular plural nouns that need to be memorized as they are exceptions and do not follow regular rules of pluralization. 

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:56cd51c7-33a0-3feb-8741-9348e657855f

Irregular Plural Nouns

In this video we’ll learn family members in Russian. We’ll pay attention to a special group of nouns called ‘masquerading’ nouns.

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:b9570a46-90f5-3eb4-b7e2-4a07e2145679

Family Members

In this video we’ll learn colors in Russian. We’ll pay attention to the adjectival patterns of these words and endings for different genders.

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:f26353f4-4b16-3aa0-b6cf-d367452645c8

Colors

In this video we’ll learn about 3 adjectival patterns in Russian language, we’ll look at different examples and we’ll learn how to use a proper form of the adjective.

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:185835c5-c102-4efb-b3a5-6f9f14f402c8

Adjectives

In this video we'll learn about full Russian names that have three parts: first name, last name and patronymic. We'll look at the differences between feminine and masculine forms and we'll learn how to properly use them. 

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:5a51675a-68a5-34a1-84ab-6b85a562714a

First Names, Last Names and Patronymics

In this video, you will learn all the forms of possessive adjectives in Russian with examples. 

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:b647a540-714b-3aaa-9cc0-1da540151428

Possessive Adjectives

In this video we'll learn how to change nouns into plural form. We'll go over the rules for masculine, feminine and neuter genders.

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:14e98dc5-3bda-3ba7-aad3-ae7d4731cad6

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